III Religious Life

Daily Assignments:

• 02/20 Papacy: Innocent III
  • Paper 2 due
  • Barber ch. 4
  • The Fourth Lateran Council: Selected Canons (Full IV Lateran)
  • Innocent III, Letters on Papal Policies
  • Innoncent III, Letters on Marriage
  • Innocent III: Sermon on the Resurrection of the Lord
• 02/22 Pespectives on the Crusades
  • Barber ch. 5
  • Robert the Monk: Urban II's Speech at Clermont
  • Solomon bar Samson: The Crusaders in Mainz, 1096
  • Usmah ibn Munqidh, Autobiography excerpts
  • Anna Comnena: On A Rude Crusader
  • Optional: Pope Innocent III: Letter 136 - Reprimand of Papal Legate, 1204 (4th Crusade)
  • Optional: St. Bernard: In Praise of the New Knighthood (early 12th Century)
• 02/27 New Religious Orders: Franciscans
  • Thomas of Celano: Two Lives of St. Francis
  • St. Francis: Testament [1182-1226]
  • Rule of Franciscan order
  • St. Francis: Canticle of the Sun
  • images: Mont St. Michel; Cistercians; St Francis
• 03/01 Heresy: Waldensians and Spiritual Franciscans
  • Conversion of Peter Waldo
  • Reinarius Saccho: Of the Sects of Modern Heretics, on Waldensians
  • Petrus Iohannes Olivi: Selections from the Apocalypse Commentary [1247/8-1298]
  • Angelo Clareno, a spiritual Franciscan, on Torture, early 14th Cent.
• 03/06 Popular Religion (divide assignments)
  • Sermon Stories
    • Tales of The Virgin
    • Tales of Relics
    • Tales of the Devil
    • Tales of Confession
    • Tales of the Host
  • Superstition
    • Stephen de Bourbon (d. 1262), De Supersticione: On St. Guinefort
    • Caesarius of Heisterbach: Confession, Ordeal and Miracle (from Dialogus Miraculorum)
    • Caesarius of Heisterbach, Medieval Heresies
  • Blood Libel against Jews
    • Thomas of Monmouth: The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich, 1173
    • Ephraim ben Jacob: The Ritual Murder Accusation at Blois, May, 1171
    • Roger of Hoveden: The Persecution of Jews, 1189
    • Ephraim of Bonn: The York Massacre 1189-90
    • Gregory X: Letter on Jews, (1271-76) - Against the Blood Libel
  • Sacraments and Pilgrimage
    • The Seven Sacraments: Catholic Doctrinal Documents
    • El Camino de Santiago
    • Jerusalem Via Crucis
• 03/08 Religion and Society, articulating someone else’s perspective for their paper

Paper 3:

Additonal Resources

Papacy:

• Background on the Papacy
• Papal Election Decree of 1059
• Council of Rome 1074
• Gregory VII Dictatus Papae 1075
• Henry IV: Letter to Gregory VII, Jan 24 1076
• Gregory VII: Deposition of Henry IV, Feb 22 1076
• Gregory VII: Second Banning of Henry IV, Mar 7 1080
• Gregory VII Lay Investiture Forbidden 1074, 1080
• The Besançon Episode 1157
• Paschal II: Privilege Feb 12 1111
• Concordat of Worms 1122
• Otto of Freising: Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa - Incident at Besançon 1157
• The Struggle Between Frederick Barbarossa and Alexander III, 1160-1177
• Lateran III: Decree on Papal Elections
• Protest to Philip Augustus of France Against Royal Protection of Jewish Money-Lenders, 1204
• Pope Innocent III: The Keeping of Slaves by the Jews, 1204
• Boniface VIII: Clericis Laicos 1296 [r.1294-1303]
• Boniface VIII: Unam Sanctam 1302 [r.1294-1303]

Crusades

• Urban II: Speech at Clermont: Five Versions
• A Christian-Muslim Debate [12th Century]
• Al-Makrisi: Arab Account of the Crusade of St. Louis skim
• Guy, A Knight: Letter from the Sixth Crusade, 1249
• Peter the Hermit and the Popular Crusade: Collected Accounts
• The Crusaders Journey to Constantinople: Collected Accounts
• The Crusaders at Constantinople: Collected Accounts
• The Siege and Capture of Jerusalem: Collected Accounts
• Crusader Letters
• Kingdom of Jerusalem: Fulcher (Fulk) of Chartres: The Latins in the East (Chronicle, Bk III)
• Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura: Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews
• William of Tyre: The Foundation of the Order of Knights Templar
• Primitive Rule of the Templars
• The Rule and Statutes of the Teutonic Knights
• William of Tyre: The Fall of Edessa (2nd Crusade)
• Odo of Deuil: The Crusade of Louis VII
• William of Tyre: The Fiasco at Damascus, 1148 (2nd Crusade)
• Annales Herbipolenses, s.a. 1147: A Hostile View of the Crusade (2nd Crusade)
• St. Bernard: Apologia for the Second Crusade
• Otto of Freising: The Legend of Prester John (2nd Crusade)
• The Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected Sources
• Cologne Chronicle: The Children's Crusade, 1212
• Frederick II's Crusade: Letters, 1229

New Religious Orders

• Charter of Abbey of Cluny
• See the Cluny Project at the University of Muenster
• See the Cistercian Order page at St. John's University
• Cistercian Order: Charta Caritatis
• St. Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer
• Carmelites

Heresy

• Cathar Gospel: Book of John the Evangelist
• Cathar Rites: The Apparelhamentum
• Cathar Rites: Traditio: Immersion in the Perfect Community
• Raynaldus: Annales - Accusations against Cathars
• Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 63 - on Heretics
• Introduction to Inquistion Documents by David Burr
• Bernard Gui: Technique of Interrogations [1307-1323]
• Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325: The Inquisition Record

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Questions? Email Dr. Jolly at kjolly@hawaii.edu 2/23/07